Nordstrom partnered with Goodee on a curated mini shop of transparently sourced and ethically made goods. Shop table lamps, cutting boards, oven mitts, wine glasses, and more for $100 or less
These 100 ethically made design objects cost less than $100 each Elizabeth Segran
If you’re unfamiliar with Goodee, you’ll want to remedy that. It’s a two-year-old design shop that sells beautiful, ethically made multicultural objects from designers from around the world. This year, Goodee has partnered with Nordstrom to curate the Goodee100, a selection of 100 home and lifestyle items that all cost $100 or less.
Goodee is the latest venture from Toronto-based Byron and Dexter Peart, who previously founded the fashion label Want Les Essentiels. With this new startup, they are singularly focused on what it means to design products that do good for the world. On their website, they have a set of icons, each of which reflects a different cause from poverty reduction to gender advocacy to water conservancy to carbon reduction so you can easily identify a product’s social impact. The Goodee team rigorously vets each product and its supply chain to ensure it l
Maxime Brouillet
Nordstrom this week announced a new partnership with Goodee the socially conscious online housewares brand from the Canadian twin brothers Byron and Dexter Peart (
pictured above) called the Goodee 100, a marketplace for artisanal home essentials from around the globe that all cost $100 or less. Every item in the collection has been mindfully curated by the Goodee team and is responsibly sourced and ethically made; the new effort is part of Nordstrom’s continuing support of Black- and Latinx-owned businesses and also dovetails with the company’s sustainability initiatives.
“It seems more prescient today than ever, that as a society we truly must reimagine living our lives with ‘fewer better things,’ ” Dexter Peart said in a release. (The Pearts’ homes in Montreal’s iconic Habitat 67 complex were featured in the September 2020 issue of
Credit: Telfar
Telfar Clemens launched his label in 2005 and soon developed a cult following: “We belonged to a specific crowd of black and brown people who didn’t see ourselves yet in fashion,” he previously told
Business of Fashion. He found mainstream success last year amid social unrest and a widespread focus on supporting Black businesses following the death of George Floyd. Now, the Queens, New York native has one of the most popular bags in America. The already-iconic Telfar Shopping Bags sell out in minutes, so sign up to be notified of the brand’s weekly drops to get your hands on one and believe me, the logo-clad totes are well-worth the hype.